“The MIT Libraries maintain a significant collection of rare books featuring works by pioneering scientists, mathematicians, and engineers from the past six centuries. To mark Ada Lovelace Day — an annual celebration of the history of women in the STEM fields — the libraries present a selection of MIT’s holdings by 10 noted women in STEM. The entries herein are inspired by the new Big Names on Campus blog, which highlights important works in STEM history within MIT’s collections. A slideshow below illustrates the variety of documents in the rare collections and in the stacks. “

let’s not forget another hidden scientist that gave up her body to science: Henrietta Lacks, The Mother of Modern Day Genomics.

If you haven’t picked up your copy of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, please do so!

Ever wonder what a HeLa cell is? Or which first human cells were used to test out the biggest mysteries in modern day science? I invite you to read this book and if you’ve already read it, you are welcomed to leave your thoughts below.

From wikipedia’s quote from this book: “According to author Rebecca Skloot, by 2009, “more than 60,000 scientific articles had been published about research done on HeLa, and that number was increasing steadily at a rate of more than 300 papers each month.”[12]

If you care to read more about women in science, see these really rare and/or interesting articles! Enjoy 😉